Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Priority
Acknowledgment is made of applicant’s claim for foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 (a)-(d). The certified copy has been filed of CN Application No. 202311799793.3, filed on 12/26/2023.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 11/18/2024 is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 1-7 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 1 S42 recites the limitation "the matching priority". There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Claim 1 S44 recites “according to constraint condition 1 and constraint condition 2” and this limitation is unclear and thus indefinite. Are conditions 1 and 2 the same or different? What are they constraining? As currently presented, claim 1 fails to clearly recite the metes and bounds of the claimed subject matter, thus the claim is indefinite.
Claim 1 S31 recites “vehicle load passing through the two points”. Is these two new points with antecedent issues or is this referring back to the start point vehicle load detection point and the end point vehicle load detection point? Is it referring to the overload control points, the source overload control detection point, the high-speed wight toll detection point or the bridge dynamic weighting detection point found in S11?
Claim 1 S11 and S33, claim 2, claim 3, and claim 6 recite “i.e.,”. The use of “i.e.” renders the claim indefinite because it is unclear whether the limitations following the phrase are part of the claimed invention.
Additionally, dependent claims 4-5 and 7 are rejected as being dependent on the previously rejected base claims and for failing to cure the deficiencies listed above.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-7 would be allowable if rewritten or amended to overcome the rejection(s) under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), 2nd paragraph, set forth in this Office action.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Ye et al. (US PGPub 2021/0381911) in paragraph 00010 discloses a method for identifying spatial-temporal distribution of vehicle loads on a bridge based on a densely connected convolutional network by mounting a plurality of cameras in different positions of a bridge. However, Ye et al. does not disclose using vehicle positioning data and GIS topological network section information to form vehicle trajectory data (S1-S14).
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/J.E.R./Examiner, Art Unit 3666
/SCOTT A BROWNE/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 3666
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